לׅׄוּלֵׅׄ֗אׅׄ הֶ֭אֱמַנְתִּי לִרְא֥וֹת בְּֽטוּב־יְהוָ֗ה בְּאֶ֣רֶץ חַיִּֽים׃
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Mishneh Torah, Repentance
How David longed and craved for the life in the World to Come! even as it is said: "If I had not believed to look upon the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living" (Ibid. 27.13). We were long since informed by the ancient sages that it is not within the power of man to attain clearly the good of the World to Come, nor to know its grandeur beauty and quantity, save only the Holy One, blessed is He! and that all the good the prophets did prophesy for Israel are none else save corporeal matters, of which Israel will enjoy during the Messianic era, when government will be restored to Israel; but as the good in the life of the World to Come has neither estimate nor comparison, the prophets did not compare it to aught so as to not lessen it by comparison. This is what Isaiah said: "Neither hath an eye seen a God besides Thee, Who worketh for him that waiteth for Him" (Is. 64.3), as if saying: "The good which the eye of a prophet had not seen, and none save God saw it, did God make for man who waits for Him. The sages declared: "All of the prophets combined prophesied not save concerning the Messianic era, but the World to Come no eye saw, O God, besides Thee".8Shabbat, 63a; Sanhedrin, 99b; Abodah Zarah, 65a. C. G.